______ it is like it ought to be : a pastoral

After immersing themselves in horror movies for their last show Schlock, Uninvited Guests take refuge in pastoral romance and the search for an impossible utopia in their new work, A Pastoral. Inventing fakesongs and fakedances for our green and plastic land, they'll seek to find a rural idyll amongst the city’s hubbub. In the guise of some ragtag band they'll declaim hip Romantic poetry, conjure epic landscapes and attempt a return to some simpler life.

It is Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral was part of the British Council Showcase 2007 at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. The show was award a Herald Angel. Click here for more information.

Reviews of It Is Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral

“The latest show from Uninvited Guests is absolutely brilliant… this is a clever, engaging and tightly controlled show.” The Guardian
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Click here to read Lyn Gardner's blog about the show

“What really impresses here is the way that Uninvited Guests contrive to make us wistful for this pastoral fantasy while reminding us that it isn't like we think it ought to be. A rich collage of music, rituals, inspired daftness and inventive staging, coupled with strong performances from a cast of five.” The Herald

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It is Like It Ought To Be: A Pastoral toured the UK in autumn 2006 and spring 2008.

'A wonderful piece...this is a show of loss, of fragmentation, of ever-growing distances between hope and achievement, aspiration and fear - this is the loss of utopia, dead in history, virulent and alive in ambivalence.' (Total Theatre)

Commissioned by the Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster and The Junction, Cambridge. A BAC Scratch commission. An Arnolfini We Live Here commission. Funded by Arts Council England, South West and supported by Dartington College of Arts.

For more information email kate@fueltheatre.com

Download a touring information pack here.